Abstract [en]

To track the time-varying dynamics of a system or the time-varying properties of a signal is a fundamental problem in control and signal processing. Many approaches to derive such adaptation algorithms and to analyse their behaviour have been taken. This article gives a survey of basic techniques to derive and analyse algorithms for tracking time-varying systems. Special attention is paid to the study of how different assumptions about the true system's variations affect the algorithm. Several explicit and semi-explicit expressions for the mean square error are derived, which clearly demonstrate the character of the trade-off between tracking ability and noise rejection.